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Action/Adventure Films

Action/Adventure Films

Classroom Resources 1st Edition

by Rob McInnes
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/03/2008

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Auteur has come up with another winner a very readable and comprehensive package Highly recommended! Media Education Journal.

Written by a practising classroom teacher, this set covers the spectrum of approaches to engaging with action/adventure films. Starting with a rethink of the traditional approach to teaching genre, the author goes on to explore: Action/adventure narrative, Formal conventions of the genre, Issues of representation Institutional practices (with particular regard to franchises and synergy), Critical debates raised by the genre, especially to do with propaganda and censorship. The emphasis is on popular and accessible texts, with extensive material on James Bond films, Die Hard, the Rambo films and the films of Lucas and Spielberg, amongst many others. The Guide also includes, an extensive filmography, tracing the development of the action/adventure film from early cinema to the present day.

ISBN:
9781903663165
9781903663165
Category:
Film theory & criticism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-03-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Auteur Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
292x210x15mm
Weight:
0.33kg

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